William P. Purcell III '76, (Government) Special Advisor on Allston, Harvard University; former Director, The Harvard Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Mayor, City of Nashville; former Director, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 2006 "Public Official of the Year" by Governing Magazine

*James S. Sherman 1878, Vice President of the United States

Tom Vilsack '72, (History) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; former Governor of Iowa; Democratic Candidate for President in 2008

OTHER GOVERNMENT NOTABLES

Drew S. Days III '63

W. Robert Connor '56, (Greek and Latin) President and CEO, The Teagle Foundation; former President and Director, National Humanities Center; appointed by President Clinton to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities

Alicia Davis '97, (Government and Spanish) Director of Marketing and Senior Project Manager, TargetPoint Consulting; former Regional Political Director, Republican National Committee; former Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Communications, U.S. Department of Commerce

Drew S. Days III '63, (English Literature) Professor of Law, Yale University; former U.S. Solicitor General

FOREIGN AMBASSADORS

John B. Emerson '75, (Government and Philosophy) U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany

*John G. Erhardt 1915, Ambassador to the Union of South Africa

*Philip C. Jessup 1918, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large

Michael Klosson '71, (History and Public Policy) Chief Policy Officer and Associate Vice President, Save the Children Foundation; former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus; former U.S. Consul General to Hong Kong and Macau; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs

*Sol M. Linowitz '35, (German and Philosophy) Ambassador to the Organization of American States; Chairman of the Board of Xerox; Co-Negotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Edward Walker, Jr. '62

William H. Luers '51, (Chemistry and Mathematics) Professor, Columbia University; Chairman and President, United Nations Association of the USA; former President, Metropolitan Museum of Art; former U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Venezuela

Robert P. Paganelli '53, (History), former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar and Syria

*Arnold L. Raphel '64, (Government) U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan

Edward S. Walker, Jr. '62, (Philosophy) Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Global Political Theory at Hamilton College; former President and CEO, Middle East Institute; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates

John J. Donohue III '74, (Economics and Mathematics) Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; former Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School; elected in 2009 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Hugh A. Sampson Jr. '71, (Biology) President, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; Dean for Translational Biomedical Sciences and former Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York; Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute